Capitosauroides

Capitosauroides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CapitosauroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrences268–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–256 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences259.857 Mya93.9 Mya268 Mya86 Mya

5 occurrences of Capitosauroides on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Abu Agag — 23.46°N, 33.02°EWióry — 50.96°N, 21.20°EBaranów — 51.03°N, 20.87°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.73°EAbrahamskraal — 31.90°S, 21.48°E

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The named rock units Capitosauroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Capitosauroides and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Capitosauroides and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Capitosauroides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Capitosauroides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Capitosauroides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCapitosauroidea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haubold 1971